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Houses

«It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.»
«Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.»
«A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.»
«A house is a machine for living in.»
Author: Le Corbusier (Architect) | About: Houses, Living
«Houses are built to live in and not to look on.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Houses | Keywords: houses, look on
«A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell»
«Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body»
Author: Margaret Fuller | About: Body, Houses
«Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had»
«His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.»
«I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.»

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